modeling

The theme of my presentation at past spring’s Host Analytics World was that EPM is needed in fair, foul, or uncertain weather. While EPM is used differently in fair and foul weather scenarios, it is a critical navigational instrument to help pilot the business. For example, in tougher times: You’re constantly re-forecasting You’re doing expense reduction modeling […]

This week Gartner research vice president John Van Decker and research director Chris Iervolino took the bold move of splitting the corporate performance management (CPM), also known as enterprise performance management (EPM), magic quadrant in two. Instead of publishing a single magic quadrant (MQ) for all of CPM, they published two MQs, one for strategic CPM […]

We’re just finishing up day 2 of a fantastic Host Analytics World 2016, with over 800 people gathered together in San Francisco to talk about enterprise performance management (EPM). Here are a few pictures to give you a feel for the event. Here’s 49ers football legend Steve Young delivering his keynote address: Here’s me delivering […]

Two weeks ago, Host Analytics launched an amazing new product called Modeling Cloud. Built by an elite team of some our most experienced developers, Modeling Cloud represents a breakthrough in cloud enterprise performance management (EPM). In this post, I’ll discuss why Modeling Cloud matters to customers, to the market, and to the company. Why Modeling […]

Last week BP3 announced the latest addition to their Brazos line of UI tooling for IBM BPM: Brazos Portal. Scott Francis gave me a briefing a few days before the announcement, and he had Ivan Kornienko, their director of UI/UX, along to give a demo. As a recap, BP3 is a boutique-sized IBM BPM services […]

I gave a webinar yesterday sponsored by camunda on developer-friendly BPM, discussing the myth of zero-code BPM. I covered the different paradigms of BPM development, that is, fully model-driven versus process models and code, with some pointers for how to evaluate the different approaches within your organization – it’s not a simple one-size-fits-all decision for most […]

At analyst events, I tend to not blog every presentation; rather, I listen, absorb and take some time to reflect on the themes. Since I spent the first part of last week at the analyst event at IBM Impact, then the second half across the country at Appian World, I waited until I had to […]

I’ll blog this year the same as last year’s bpmNEXT demos, with each session of multiple demos in a single post. The posts are a bit long, but they are usually grouped into themes so it works better that way. First up was Brian Reale of Colosa (makers of ProcessMaker open source BPM and ProcessMapper) […]

I still think that DST is BPM’s best kept secret outside of their own customer base and the mutual fund industry in which they specialize: if I mention DST to most people, even other BPMS vendors, they’ve never heard of them. However, they have the most fiercely loyal customers that I’ve ever seen, in part […]

The conference that I was most excited to attend last year was bpmNEXT, conceived and executed by Bruce Silver and Nathaniel Palmer: “it’s like DEMO for BPM” is how Bruce original described it to me, and that’s how it turned out. I blogged almost 7,000 words about bpmNEXT and the individual sessions in two days […]